Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
